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July 4, 2010

G82: Orioles 6, Red Sox 1

Matusz was dealing (7-2-0-3-8, 111), but the Sox did have a couple of scoring chances early on.

In the second, Bill Hall singled and Daniel Nava got HBP, but Gustavo Molina popped up a bunt to the pitcher, Marco Scutaro took a called third strike, and Darnell McDonald grounded to third. With one out in the fourth, Kevin Youkilis walked and went to third on Adrian Beltre's double. Then J.D. Drew struck out and Hall flied to center. (Yook's rally-killer spoiled the shutout.)

Lackey (7.1-8-4-1-7, 117) was good, except when he wasn't, and then he was as annoying as usual.

Holidays are usually day games. Unless it was one of those things where people got the Friday or Monday off instead of the actual July 4th. Do they do that for July 4th, or is it the one holiday that is actually always celebrated on the day itself?

GBA isn't much easier to sing than 'Star Spangled Banner.' If we have to have a national anthem (with all due respect to Howard Zinn's piece on wmtc today), it ought to be the easy to sing and minimally nationalistic 'America the Beautiful.'